Canso:  Estat ai en greu cossirier, Beatritz de Dia

 

I am hot with desire

for a knight I've had;

I wish it always said

I've loved excessively;

now I see I'm self-betrayed:

I didn't give my love,

and my great error is displayed

to me, in bed, or dressed.

 

I truly wish to hold my knight

one night in naked arms:

he'd succumb to all my charms,

if I cushioned his delight;

for I am made more fair, thereby,

than was to Floris, Blancheflor;

I grant my love and heart,

my sense, my eyes, my life.

 

Sweet friend, my rightful bliss,

shall I hold your heart in fee?

And shall I lie with you one night

to share my amorous kiss?

My desire's surely great

to hold you in my husband's place--

provided that you pledge to me

you'll make my every wish complete.